the earth.

Genesis 1:11, 12
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind." And it was so. . . .

Genesis 2:4, 5, 9
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them. . . .

Genesis 4:11, 12
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. . . .

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

first.

Mark 4:31, 32
It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds sown upon the earth. . . .

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Psalm 92:13, 14
Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. . . .

Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: . . .

Hosea 6:3
So let us know--let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Philippians 1:6, 9-11
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will continue to perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. . . .

Colossians 1:10
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

1 Thessalonians 3:12, 13
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows, . . .

blade.

Matthew 13:26
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.